"I was led to my seat with my husband [Adam Shulman] and I stopped in the section I thought I was sitting in, which was next to my friend Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and they said 'No, no, no, you're sitting in the center," Hathaway explained of the seating nightmare. "So I go over, making my way to the center of the center of the center and there's a beautiful woman wearing pink with her hair up, but she's fully facing away from me and I'm like, 'Shoot! Excuse me, I'm sorry but I think you're in my seat' [and] Penelope Cruz turns around. And I'm like, 'Oh, no you're not!'"

At that point, the commercial break was ending and everyone was returning to their seats as the director yelled, "3, 2, 1." Seeing one empty chair, Hathaway's husband grabbed it ... and she sat down on his lap.

"So we got to watch one part of the Oscars that way," Hathaway joked.

As for the rest of the night, the Oscar winner decided to switch things up a bit.

"I guess because I hosted one year ... Block it out! I have ... I've gone through it a couple of times, so this year, I decided to do something a little different," Hathaway explained to Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan. "I got a perfect purse-sized flask, which I put tequila in, and I had a great time! It was really nice, and it's a great ice-breaker."

So, did she share her beverage? "Of course [I shared it]," she continued, "Joe was sitting next to me, whom I mentioned before, and Gabourey Sidibe, whom I never met before, but she's so awesome."